The Library and Archives also retain any Newscuttings that are relevant to Caves, Caving or Speleology and which has been published in the local, national or international daily / weekend newspapers & associated supplements. If of local interest or relevance, these are usually lodged within the appropriate Archive Document File. If such material is of national or international significance, these will usually be catalogued as acquisitions and entered into the Library Catalogue. 

The current scheme of organizing the Document Archive into karst area-specific files, for ease of access to specific information, has meant that individual Archive Document Files may contain discrete reports etc. which have a "restricted access" imposed upon them by the donor source. The result is that this system has rendered much of the Archive Document Files unavailable for perusal by non-members in order to maintain a strictly imposed "Rule of Confidentiality" on the secure Archive.

Archive Catalogue : 
Unfortunately, our Archive Catalogues have not yet been constructed or formatted as true digital databases, with active Title / Subject / Author / Key-word search characteristics.
We hope that this can be achieved in the future. However, for the interim, they are simple MS WORD Documents.
The entire Archive Collection is currently being catalogued. It will never be available to non-members. This Catalogue is necessarily very detailed in order to provide a comprehensive coverage of all the individual contents of each Archive File, whether of Hardcopy Document, Film, Video, Sound or Digital format. 
To extend the scope of accessibility to the Catalogue for non-Members and for academic purposes only, it may be proposed in the future to segregate the Archive Catalogue into sub-sections and make the un-restricted access material on the contents list available for perusal in hard copy form only. Further than this it is not possible to go without compromising the security of the Archive.

Members and other Authorized-access users may access the incomplete Archive Catalogue document by Application to the Hon. Secretary. 
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General Description of Types of Contents : 

• Un-published DKRS material :  Examples are Internal Reports, Memoranda, Aide-Memoires, Notices, Minutes & Records of Official Meetings, Financial Records, pre-publication Journal proofs, Correspondence Files, information files, sound, film and video digital files, photographs, photographic-positive and -negative film and Project Report Files;
• Un-published PhD Theses or other similar academic material of karst relevance;
• Un-published or published other documentation as specified :...(no examples given);
• Published or unpublished material with "Restricted" circulation or access as requested by the donor / author / publisher :...Examples are Geo-technical Reports / Evaluations / Maps / Plans / Charts etc. of karst or cave sites in, on or beneath commercial or domestic premises or military installations or sites and having "In Confidence", "Commercial - In Confidence" or a UK or Foreign Military "Restricted Access" Status.
• Foreign Policy Archive was set up in 2004 in response to the developing situation with "Proteus Project" Work in the Dinaric Karst of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It contains :- 
• Special FP Archive, for all Science Project Information in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatian (Dalmatian) Hercegovina and Montenegrin Hercegovina - "BLUE FILES" (hard-copy and digital formats) - containing reports on projects specific to the science programme in those countries. Many of the reports have now been published for limited academic circulation;
• Special Combined FP Archive, for all material relating to the Karst Territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in R. Bosnia and Herzegovina, R. Crna Gora (Montenegro) and Croatian Dalmatia, which forms a specialised information research resource supporting the Society's Science Projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Crna Gora. In itself, this contains a large specialist Map Collection, with coverage in 1 : 50 000., 1 : 25 000., 1 : 2 500 and 1 : 1 000 Scales, together with much other data relating to the Dinaric Karst Territories. Some of this material is historic, whilst other material is contemporary.

Also included in the contemporary material is a range of very-high resolution digitized Aerial Photogrammetry Images of parts of the Dinaric Karst in Eastern Herzegovina.